特别广播英语第 148 课：Improving Industrial efficiency through Robotics
利用机器人技术提高工业效率-3

It is not yet known whether robots will one day have vision as good as human vision. Technicians believe they will, but only after years of development. 现在还不知道有一天机器人是否具有人类一样的好视力。技术人员想信它们会的，只是需要多年的开发。

Engineers working on other advances are designing and experimenting with new types of metal hands and fingers, giving robots a sense of touch. 在其他方面取得进展的工程技术人员正在设计和试验新型金属手臂和手指，使机器人具有触觉。

Other engineers are writing new programs allowing robots to make decisions such as whether to discard defective parts in finished products. 其他工程人员正在编写新的程序使机器人做出如是否抛弃成品中有缺陷的零件的决定。

To do this, the robot will also have to be capable of identifying those defective parts. 要做到这点，机器人还必须具有鉴别有缺陷零件的能力。

These future robots, assembled with a sense of touch and the ability to see and make decisions, will have plenty of work to do. 集触觉、看和做决定的能力于一体的这些未来机器人将会做大量的工作。

They can be used to explore for minerals on the ocean floor or in deep areas of mines too dangerous for humans to enter. 它们可以用于海底探矿或探测对人类太危险的深层区域的矿物。

They will work as gas station attendants, firemen, housekeepers, and security personnel. 它们可以做加油站服务人员、消防人员、房屋管理员和安全人员的工作。

Anyone wanting to understand the industry of the future will have to know about robotics. 任何想了解未来工业的人必须懂机器人。